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Gloom can be cured
Many
Many people are victims of melancholia. more suffer from it than need do. Here are four rules and general advice for conquering gloom by Harley- street doctor--
Anthony
Weymouth
1. Have an hour's extra sleep every night.
2. Pick a friend and tell him all about pour troubles.
3. Don't choose a hobby which you muly do by yourself.
5. Run round the park in a sweater; you will feel much
better afterwards,
Te
WONDER whether you hate severe degree of depression, What's
the word depression as much more, it's a something wideh as I do. But, whether you have fuses to be reasmed with.
it or not, it's always cropping I. for example, Fini altered { melancholy person an expensive car, up.
wont, string of priceless pearls, he or she wouldi lieve me when I tell you that I merrly raise the eyebrows or shrug personally am never depressed, the shoulders There would be although I sometimes wonder Joyful respon such as would urcur to You me if somebody suidonly why I'm not.
Now I don't suppose you be, if she's a
I have come to the conclusion that offered us something for nothing.
vireum-
10% because I refuse to look too far You see, the absence of joy heman ahead, or to take the world's affous me kind of refatiout to the too personally to myself. I've decided staners of the individual That 13 that life for me means the present, why many people who suffer and don't
eure
frasn
row of beans what depressiori ir melancholy are really all the philosophers have ever about the future.
you.
sud proving that the Greeks were right. In other words they're gloomy
In this, I expect I'm very much like cause their liver's all over the place.
The Jobs I've got to do me plenty to think wasting
RIMU The Greeks were right when they about without implied that a good digestion ncant Ume speculating
the gand spirits. 0101 future about which, so far as I can see, we've got no data to enable UN
o form a satisfactory opinion,
LET
MELANCHOLY
be
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RKOUE VAYOLA
"Youse cops is always hounding me!"
Are You Sure?
Answers below:
1. March 21 ceased to be New Year's Day in:-
1522
1405
1837
1603
1751
1060
we
cath.
2. In which of these European countries is there German
EL
Lithuania
Poland Rumanta Italy
tackled if we remember dwo fucts. That first is to keep aur ET us return to depression. brides working as well as
Its time somebody de- This prevents our blood getting con- bunked this word. According to my taminated by polsonous materials. dictionary it means, "To depress or The second is to refuse to sit down in
reduce put down-to lower or
the welter of self-pity when things go energy or hopefulness of to dis- wrong, but do something to put them pirit or sudden."
That is, depression
to be
Is
\right.
Ever rend Burton's "Angiomy [f In Melancholy"? self-
allowing depressed, allowing to be pushed down.
one's other words
to have confidence lowered.
Now self-confidence is natural every one. It is
Robert Burton was himself a good- humoured man, although addicted to to pessimism, and he wrote his book its OWN tendency to
for his confidence in une a cure self which keeps one going, and it's melancholy, the absence of this self-confidence
I always like the story of how Bur- which characterises depression, and
trifle ton, when he began to feel a its elder brother. melancholia.
Depression is the reaction of weak melancholy, would leave his study in
and world Christ Church, Oxford, natures to the buffets of the
and
stroll
It is a kind of surrender-an escape down to the bridge and listen to the from the unpleasant realities of life, ordinary conversation of the bargees. It gets its first chance when we inen- By getting into intimate contact with beings he was able to relleve his own tally throw up the spange jul off making decisions; or when we e gloom. He acknowledges fuse to face facts and bury our head wrote the "Anatomy" to relieve in the sands, adopting a kind of own melancholy,
Micawber-like attitude "that
thing is sure to turn up."
some-
that
he
his
minority:
Belgium
3. What is, er was, the site of:--
Goose Fair-Bartholomew Fair -St. Giler's Fair.
4. Which, if any, of these are excused jury service:-
Nonconformist ministers Editors
Licensed pilots
Domestic servants
Owners of one-man businesses
5. Topiary would stop if:-
drank leas
Pental shrubberies
not clipped
SPELLING BEE
Dictate this sentence to your friends. From 100 (top score). subtract 10 for each word mis- spelled:-
Outside a cemetery sat a harassed cobbler and an em- burrassed oculist, picnicking
отп
a desiccated apple, and gazing at the symmetry of u lady's ankle with unparalleled ecstasy.
12. The story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is by:- Hans Andersen Andrew Lang Grimm
Walt Disne
13. What is the feminine of: -- Charles
Werc
Prosecutor Fox
We all had our eyesight tested Gyroscopes were fitted to ships Plural voting were abolished 6. Which of Shakespeare's plays takes place partly or entirely
(a) Marseilles
(a)
(b) Cyprus
in: See the moral of this? If you feel that melancholy is getting hold of you at uny time, do something.. 10 much for depression. And don't suppose it matters very much now what About melan- what, so long as it's something which cholla?
takes you out of yourself, The Greeks had a word for it all right when they decided to describe the word
severe
depression
by
MELANCHOLY is a negative
Mthing. It en only really
For melancholy means get you down if it crowds out all that
melle." This shows that the optimism which exists in you.
"black
this
are
So don't let your natural high considered severe depression Greeks
spirits be ousted by gloom, and for to be caused by a bad digestion.
That is exactly what lles at the very one's sake never get into the of self-pity. Your friends bottom
ut (at any rate) a good deal habil
Get of melancholy.
clear, won't welcome you if you always look Doctors use the word depression for on the black side, but they will be a black cloud that descends on people pleased to see you if you when there is no cause to be found in Interested in them and in what's go their circumstances.
ing on in the world.
James Agate once reviewed a book Suppose, for example, you lost ull your money or a near relative died, on cows, in the Dally Express. His and, in consequence, you felt worried review was short and ended like this: or and. This isn't depression. It's "I know or care nothing about cows, To hell with cows!" As he is a much the natural renetion to sorrow.
greater writer than I can over hope
DEPRESSION is a state of to be I cannot do better than copy
descends on him,
So what about substituting the you without adequate cause. Melan- choly is nothing more or less than a word "depression" for "cows"?
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